"The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into."

-- Wilfrid Sheed

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“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”
“Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.”
“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”
“Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.”
“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”
“If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.”
“There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.”

Source : "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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